DIGITAL COMICS: Abstract Studio joins Diamond Digital Program

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Creator Terry Moore’s Abstract Studio title Rachel Rising is consistently one of the bestselling monthly independent titles in the comic book specialty market. Now comic book specialty retailers can satisfy their customers with a digital version of the suspenseful horror series as the company has joined Diamond Comic Distributors’ Diamond Digital program, whereby digital comics are available from independently-owned local comic book shops by in-store purchase or through their websites.

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DIGITAL COMICS: Archie Comics goes global

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Archie Comics, the leading mass-market comic book publisher in the world and home to such notable pop culture creations as Archie, Jughead, Betty & Veronica, Josie & The Pussycats, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch, announced today that it will be expanding its global presence by launching “Archie Comics” digital publishing applications for China, Japan, India and more in the fall of 2012 through an expanded partnership with iVerse Media’s new iVerse International program.

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DIGITAL COMICS: Marvel signs exclusive foreign language digital comics agreement with iVerse

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Today Marvel Entertainment, one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, announced it will exclusively distribute single issue and collected edition foreign language digital comics worldwide with iVerse, an innovator and unique voice in the mobile publishing field.

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SOLICITATIONS: Clamshells become bomshells in Pocket Gods #18

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Ape Entertainment and Bolt Creative announced today that Pocket God Comics issue No. 18 is now available on the App Store for iPhone, iPad andiPodtouch. Gem Cell Research: Part 4 of 5 keeps readers on the edge of their seat. Creeping clamshells! Teela can’t really be dead, right? I mean…it’s Pocket God! No one really dies…do they? Well, maybe it’s not too late to do something about it! Can Klik get the girls’ Gem working in time to pull Teela back? Or is she pushing up daisies for real-like?

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DIGITAL COMICS: Arrow will premiere with weekly digital title

Fans of the Smallville television series have been treated to a weekly released digital comic series that continues on the story even after the show has ended. It has now been anounced that the future CW Arrow series will have a companion comic releasing right along side of it. Take the jump for more details.

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SNEAK PEEK: Tomorrow Jones

What happens if you are the middle child in a family of superheroes?  Do you pretend to be a normal person, or do you take up the family business and fight crime?  Indie comic creators Brian Daniel and Johan Manandin attempt to answer these questions with their digital comic series, Tomorrow Jones.

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DIGITAL COMICS: Top Cow announces exclusive digital only graphic novel

There are a number of publishers that are creating digital only comics for those who have ventured into the digital comics waters. Top Cow has announced it will release a full length graphic novel exclusively for digital comic readers.

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DIGITAL COMICS: IDW Publishing announces Transformers digital miniseries

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IDW Publishing, Hasbro, Activision, and High Moon Studios are thrilled to welcome the launch of the new digital comic series: TRANSFORMERS: FALL OF CYBERTRON! Announced at Comic-Con International San Diego last month, and beginning today, this new series will offer fans an exclusive look at the story that precedes the explosive new game.

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DIGITAL COMICS: iVerse seizes Contraband Comics

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iVerse Media, creators of some of the world’s most popular and widely used technologies for reading and distributing digital comics, announced today that the company’s Comics Plus platform has been selected as the exclusive digital distribution platform for Contraband Comics, a new independent, creator-owned comics publishing initiative.

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